Quotes About Habit

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

I'm trying to quit," he said. "Just so you know." He lit the cigarette and inhaled so long and so deep it sounded like air being let out of a tire.

Me mum used to always have the radio on - even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school - constant noise, really.

I have to have my coffee. I probably have three cups a day, but only before noon.

If it was up to Rob we would be eating Nandos and salad cream, morning, noon and night!

You eat when you're hungry, and I'm not normally hungry in the mornings.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

I've noticed people in India have developed a habit of hugging around people. I don't understand it now. I wanted to be hugged when I was young. Now, if someone wants to hug me, I feel only claustrophobic.

I used to shop in ASDA all the time. Every now and then I still go in to get a little salad for lunch.

Like wildebeest and zebra migration across the Serengeti, investment managers and consultants, too, have a habit of running together and, every now and then, changing direction.

I'm really addicted to water. I carry a bottle of water everywhere I go. I know people think I'm a nut.

Everybody has some kind of addiction. It's about how you get around that addiction. First, you have to break the habit like anything. You have to define the hurdle or the objective.

I'm obsessed - I couldn't even tell you how much coffee I drink in a day.

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

I don't think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day.

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

I talk to myself. It's my worst habit. I often muse aloud, or, when people drive me crazy, I curse them aloud. I might do a ranting monologue about how pissed off I am about them, occasionally forgetting that they might still be in the room; now, that's weird!

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

YOU DO NOT need to be a victim of worry. Reduced to its simplest form, what is worry? It is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.

You become a worrier by practicing worry. You become free of worry by practicing the opposite…

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Worry is a habit. It got into your mind because you practiced it, and anything you practice in, you can practice out.